Monday Night Lectures (6)

Weimar: ACC Galerie | This June of this year Kunsthaus Dresden will open a festival of public interventions. The master students of Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be the first to intervene into the public texture of Dresden, a city notorious as a backdrop for populist right wing public appearances, a.k.a. Pegida. Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, director of the Kunsthaus and curator of the festival Am...

Weimar: ACC Galerie | “AL BORDE is a collaborative architecture studio that focuses on solutions to ordinary and contemporary problems. They work with low budget projects where materiality and functionality acquire significance. The nature of the projects creates a framework where the problems are considered part of the solution. The strength of their buildings lies in their ability for joining objective architectural responses to subjective user...

Weimar: ACC Galerie | Art and culture can only be presented and communicated within a context; the local, social, political, and economic conditions of their production and presentation and the specific conditions of reception- and discourse must always be taken into account. At the same time, as a consequence, it can be observed a paradigm shift has taken place in cultural politics: no longer “culture for everyone”, but the articulation and...

Weimar: ACC Galerie | During the European Capital of Culture in Weimar in 1999, Jochen Gerz tells a story on billboards that plays with layers of memory and fiction. This is based on several rumours that link Weimar and Bu chen wald through a radiating light. Inhabitants get a chance to speak, debate history and the present day of the town. Just like in an endless mirroring of fiction and memory, Artist’s Dream Goethe in Buchen wald captures in a...

Weimar: ACC Galerie | Berlin based artist Nadin Reschke uses this proclaimative subjunctive to examine some of her collaborative projects in public space. In her artwork she engages with social issues, collaborating with people outside the art context in the work’s development. Her process-based projects trigger communication and create a framework for social action. In the past 10 years she has realised numerous international projects. For her...

Weimar: ACC Galerie | Ella Tetrault is a Canadian artist residing in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus-University and a BA in International Development from the University of Toronto. As a former youth worker and international development student, she often makes use of qualitative research and narrative therapy methods.
Her projects tend to take place over a long period of time and evolve as...